Asia: Series Zhuhai preview

AFR Championship comes back to ZIC
After the water-testing race in April, the AFR Championship will bring its
first points race of the season back to Zhuhai International Circuit (ZIC)
on May 21st-23rd, joining the China Touring Car...

AFR Championship comes back to ZIC

After the water-testing race in April, the AFR Championship will bring its
first points race of the season back to Zhuhai International Circuit (ZIC)
on May 21st-23rd, joining the China Touring Car Championship (CTCC)
weekend. The unsettled weather will bring more possibilities to the
championship and make the Saturday qualifying even more important.

Two young guns from Thailand, Sandy Stuvik (15 years old) and Tin Sritrai
(20 years old) stood out in April race and they confirmed with Asia Racing
Team (ART) that they will run full season in AFR. Suriya Bala, from
Singapore, will join the race as the Thai's teammate. Zhicong Li & Shanqi
Zhang, two young Chinese drivers from PTRS racing team, will join the
championship this weekend. Shanqi Zhang, who has raced with AFR for several
years, marched into F3 Australian this year and judging from the ranking,
Zhang is experiencing a good learning curve and the FR 2.0 seasons prepared
him well for competitions of higher levels. The only female driver Samin
Briceno (Venezuela), the French Patrice BONZOM and Angelo NEGRO from Italy
will continue their performance in AFR with Top Speed racing team. Champ
Motorsport brings David Lau from Hong Kong and Kevin O'hara from Ireland to
the championship this time.

2010 season, AFR's promoter FRD brought something new to the AFR
regulation, making the AFR platform an even fairer one for all the teams
and drivers, e.g. According to the regulation, during the race week, all
AFR drivers/teams are not allowed to go on the track until Thursday. AFR
features one official practice on Friday afternoon and another one on
Saturday morning; Qualifying and round 1 on Saturday afternoon; Round 2 on
Sunday morning.